Manual Testing Interview Question Part - 2


  • What did you do in your last project?

  • What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve it?

  • Did you have a situation where you did not have any documents (no    requirement document, no Use Cases, or no Design Document) and you had to write the Test Cases? How did you write the Test Cases in this situation?

  • Could you tell me two things you did in your previous assignment (QA/Testing related hopefully) that you are proud of?

  • We believe in ad-hoc software processes for projects. Do you agree with this? Please explain your answer.

  • How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?

  • What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?

  • In an application currently in production, one module of code is being               modified. Is it necessary to re- test the whole application or is it enough to just test functionality associated with that module?

  • Have you ever completely tested any part of a product?How?

  • Do you know of metrics that help you estimate the size of the testing effort?

  • How do you estimate staff requirements?

  • What do you do (with the project tasks) when the schedule fails?

  • How do you handle conflict with programmers?

  • How do you know when the product is tested well enough?

  • What characteristics would you seek in a candidate for test-group manager?

  • What do you think the role of test-group manager should be?Relative to senior management? Relative to other technical groups in the company?  relative to your staff?

  • Do you see testing as a service or a discipline?

  • What is done on the first day of the work?

  • What do you do on the job every day?What is the first thing you go when you go to work on a day?(What is your routine job?)

  • What do you do if you have any questions to ask?Who do you ask?

  • Who do you ask?

  • How to deal with your team members?

  • How do you determine what to test in an application?

  • If you have no documentation about the product, how do you test an          application? Describe the process.

  • How do you make sure that it is quality software?

  • As a QA Tester, can you tell me the situation when you felt the most proud of  it?

  • What made you to choose testing career?

  • When should testing start in a project? Why?

  • Let us say you have a web application to test.How do you go about testing it?

  • What is the process?

  • How would you ensure that you have covered 100% testing?

  • What problems did you face in the past?How did you solve it?

  • Tell me about the worst boss you’ve ever had.

  • What do you like about QA?

  • How do you know it is sufficient testing?

  • What are the different tests that can be done for Client Server Application and Web-based Application.Give details.

  • What can be done if requirements are changing continuously?

  • What if the application has functionality that wasn’t in the requirements?

  • How can software QA processes be implemented without stifling productivity?

  • What is a Test/QA Team Lead?

  • What is software testing methodology?

  • What is the general testing process?

  • How do you execute tests?

  • What testing approaches can you tell me about?

  • What is your goal?

  • Describe some staff conflicts you’ve handled.

  • Tell me about a difficult time you had at work and how you worked through it.

  • Give me an example of something you tried at work but did not work out so you had to go at things another way.

  • What is the structure of the company?

  • From you resume, I see that you have been working in one place for a very short period of time.This raises me questions why.Can you explain why?

  • Do you have any situations in the past where you have some arguments with your team members?

  • What do you like about a Manager? And what don’t you like?

  • Is there a format for a test case? Do you follow any methodology for numbering test cases?

  • What is Test Harness?

  • Have you written Test Plan? What is a Test Plan? What does it include?

  • What are the different matrices that you follow?

  • Give me five common problems that occur during software development.

  • What if the software is so buggy it can’t be tested at all?

  • How do you know when to stop testing?

  • What if there isn’t enough time for thorough testing?

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